List of Abstracts 2018: SESSION A - SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (SCM) STRATEGY AND PLANNING
Date: December 3, 2018
Lean & Green Europe finds its origin in The Netherlands where it since 2008 has developed and evolved into an acknowleged sustainability program for the Logistics sector. Together with governmental, knowledge institutions and 300 commercial companies we work on CO2-reduction by taking structural measurements. We strive for 0% emission, 100% collaboration.
The supply chain management application requires that members of the supply chain or network work together. Typically, this collaboration starts at the level of two neighbouring links, and other businesses are gradually involved. The maximum effect is achieved when all links are involved and the material flow can be optimized at the supply chain level. Such collaboration in the field of material flows can be built with various tools, but it is important that business partners agree to apply the tools. To identify appropriate tools for the development of collaboration within the supply chain management, primary research was carried out. Its first part took place in the selected company, the second part in the group of its key suppliers. The first part of the research has identified the tools that the company itself considers to be the most beneficial for the development of collaboration in the field of material flows. The second part of the research revealed the opinion of the key suppliers of the company. The analysis of the results of both parts of the research has shown that it is the conclusion of framework contracts, a joint demand forecasting and also the provision of information that influences the planning of the business partner, what contributes most to the development of collaboration in the field of material flows.
Digitalization has made its way to all industries. Technological enablers like broadband and mobile internet, wearables and big data or the Internet of Things and cloud computing have made it possible to develop completely new business models and provide new offerings (value propositions) to customers. None of those, however, would be possible without paying special attention to how these innovations will be rolled-out, and the impact they will have. Successful companies have already recognized this trend and have started to adapt - both to continually stay one step ahead of their competitors and to exploit the potential of digitalization in order to increase sales revenue and/or reduce costs. Many markets are already witnessing the successful introduction of digitally enhanced versions of existing products and services, as well as completely new offerings. In the waves of this mega-trend, nearly every company has started to take measures aiming at digitalization or business transformation. For making the right choice of initiatives that should be pursued, and for the successful implementation assuring sustainable changes, identifying and analysing correlations within the company and its supply chain is a critical success factor. For many firms, this is the biggest challenge. Regardless of whether your current focus rests on increasing your competitive advantage or on re-orienting your entire business towards the new possibilities of digitalization, ultimately, initiatives in the context of digitalization will involve the implementation of capabilities by means of information technology. Within the paper Enterprise Architecture (EA) approach, that describes the relationships of an organization’s fundamental business elements (such as business goals, products, processes, applications and technologies) and their further development will be applied to selected processes of supply chain i.e. CRM, SRM to evaluate to what extent business processes and business requirements are supported by IT systems. In the course of the analysis, inefficiencies in this respect will be identified. In the next step, optimization activities will be proposed.
The article presents the aspects of packaging and packaging waste management in a food business operator, which also offers packaging to the food market. In order to protect the environment, it is necessary to follow the principles of sustainable development, which focuses on three principles: environmental, social and economic. The deteriorating state of the environment affects the spread of this concept. The aim of the article is to characterize the packaging and packaging waste management as well as present them in the food industry, in a way that goes beyond legal regulations, entering the area of sustainable development.
The aim of this paper is to explore the possibility of optimizing intermodal logistics corridor 5c, relying on the European Union transport policy, which will be in the function of regional development. The main goal is to overcome the obstacles encountered in intermodal transport between the ports of Ploče and Brčko and thus popularize this intermodal line at the international level. Transport is one of the most important elements in the functional organization of the spatial area in which the level of transport system development articulates the concentration of population, settlements and the development of economic activities. Among the most important activities in achieving this goal is the integration in the Eurocorridor system defined by the EU at the Pan-European conferences. This integration is of crucial importance for companies to successfully execute their supply chain processes both domestically and internationally. The contribution of this paper is reflected in the following: based on the analysis of the current socio-economic situation and the condition of the transport system in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), as well as existing strategic studies and development plans, with the proposed scenario of intermodal corridor optimization we intend to provoke a debate among transport experts and others in BiH and beyond, which will potentially reduce obstacles to the establishment of a quality and functional intermodal system. It should also result in the creation of a strong integrated intermodal freight transport network in BiH. The implementation of this scenario would ultimately lead to the development of the entire region.
Information sharing within a supply chain has a number of positive impacts on its performance. However, to achieve highly effective communication, it is necessary that there are trust-based business partnerships and willingness to share correct and for the partner important information in the supply chain. Based on a quantitative research conducted at 69 small and medium-sized companies, the paper discusses attitudes of Czech chemical companies towards importance of information and willingness to share it with a key business partner for the purpose of effective management of business operations. While purchase managers marked information concerning extraordinary fluctuations in deliveries and order status information as most important, sales managers saw the highest significance in information about future customer demand and market development. The highest rate of willingness to share information was identified just in the information that was considered by the business partners as most important. For this reason, it is not possible to consider a lack of willingness as a barrier to effective communication among small and medium-sized companies in chemical industry supply chains.
In today's globalized world the cooperation and close links between enterprises reduce the mutual boundaries between them. Competitiveness of enterprises is nowadays a value-added challenge rather than a question of “how much to produce” or “how much to buy”. Lean production methods and supply partnerships allow enterprises “to produce more with less” resources, costs and time. Business management looks at the supply chain from an external perspective that seeks the most effective performance of processes, no matter who provides them. New technologies and new markets create brand new enterprises with a much narrower strategic focus. Their performance management focuses on a set of activities that bring the customer the most benefit. Supply chain networks integrate, coordinate, and manage the movement of goods, materials and information from the supplier to the end customer. At the heart of these business-to-business relationships is a key managing enterprise (key link) that guides individual flows and maintains linkages between connected enterprises with a perspective of long-term partnership based on cooperation and mutual exchange of information. The paper deals with the definition of a key enterprise of the supply chain and its role and importance for the lean production methods. The authors present the results of the questionnaire survey, which focused on the use of methods and principles of lean production in enterprises. The research results have been analyzed from the perspective of enterprises position in the supply chain.
In today's uncertain and turbulent markets, the most modern supply chains worldwide ensure real-time information exchange between partners. One could observe technological evolution that enables high level of information sharing based on smart devices and smart systems. The challenge today is to create and manage smart supply chain - supply chain full of new technologies usage to allow processes automation, inventory tracking, real-time monitoring and that enables interaction between supply chain members, clients and also between the technologies themselves. Furthermore, smart means supply chain which intelligent and capable to make some decisions without human involvement. This paper seeks to understanding of the concept of smart supply chain and provide a comprehensive review of the available literature. Published literature on smart supply chains and smart supply chain' management has been considered. In addition, attention has been extended to analyse the link between the smartness and other features of modern supply chains (especially adaptability).
The aim of this article is to identify green practices and to determine their role in in context of building relationships with suppliers. There are many types of green practices introduced in this paper. In this case, they are defined as all practices related to managing processes of the organization in the way that minimalize the environmental impacts. The research method used in this paper is review of existing literature. Firstly, different types of green practices are identified. Secondly, the context of building relationships with suppliers is described. Next, the observations and conclusions are presented. At the end, the recommendations for future research are outlined. The results concern use of different practices related with minimalizing the environmental impacts in context of building relationships with suppliers and an attempt to determine if there can be established any trend regarding the stated problem.
The paper deals with specifying areas in the processing chain suitable for applying RFID technology to check the integrity of the shipment and design application to using this technology. The application should simplify the control process in specified areas and replace visual inspection by workers. Part of the results are the validation of the applicability of the application under the labratory conditions. The post contains a functional schema configured in RFID middlewari AMP and subsequent processing of data into the functional part of the application in MS Excel environment.
One of the most important and popular tool of contemporary e-logistics in supply chains are the different types of electronic freight exchanges. In the paper the main types of open and closed electronic freight exchanges as well as their advantages and disadvantages are presented. In particular history and the scope of the services offered by biggest open electronic freight exchanges in Europe, such as: Teleroute, Timo,com, Trans.eu and Wtransnet, are described. The main aim of the paper is the analyses of business models of electronic freight exchangers and the identification of their tasks in building of integrated supply chains. Furthermore the basic strategic assumptions are presented in order to change the role of open electronic freight exchanges towards logistics platforms which plays the significant role as a initiators and central coordinators of flows in international supply chains.